Gold Mountain is a summit in the Blue Hills on the

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, in the United States'

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. It is the highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula and the highest point in

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, and nearby Green Mountain is the second-highest point. The mountain lies partly on private land, partly in the City of Bremerton watershed inaccessible to the general public, and partly in the adjacent Green Mountain State Forest which is open to hikers, horses, and on- and off-road vehicles. Most of the eastern half of Gold Mountain is in the city watershed, with the Union River reservoir at the foot. The summit itself is in a quarter quarter section

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of the state forest, connected at a corner. The summit is about outside the city limits, west of downtown Bremerton.

Radio and television transmitters

The mountain summit has an

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including transmitters for Kitsap Peninsula area

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, as well as Seattle television and radio stations

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(Fox 13), KTBW and

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. Since 1981, the Western Washington Repeater Association has operated an amateur radio repeater, call sign WW7RA, on the site, with coverage throughout the

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from Centralia to Bellingham. A

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used for GPS-based

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is located at the KTBW site on the summit.

References

External links

* (1979 entry) *{{GNIS, id=1530129, name=Gold Mountain Lookout (1992 entry)
Green Mountain State Forest
Washington State Department of Natural Resources

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